Elevated seismicity at Kamaʻehuakanaloa did not impact other volcanoes or any infrastructure on the Island of Hawaiʻi. The ...

The Axial Seamount is not expected to threaten human population centres but it could help scientists forecast the eruption of ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

An Oregon State University scientist has predicted a volcanic eruption in 2025. But at about one mile under the ocean, the ...

The Babuyan Claro volcano in the Philippines was once thought to be a candidate; a 2021 paper in the journal Climate of the Past suggested the more likely culprit was Ferdinandea, a volcanic seamount ...

Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just under a mile beneath the ocean waves.

Thanks to a dense array of sensors on the volcano’s summit and flanks, scientists know that Axial Seamount has been swelling with magma and getting taller, a sign that it’s ready to go off.

A recent discovery suggests sunken islands may be the inspiration for Atlantis, offering exciting clues for researchers.

Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become islands). Scientists estimate that there are some ...

The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain ...

Never fear, check out the Axial Seamount blog, which chronicles eruption forecasts, for what’s really going on. The blog says the “most active submarine volcano in the N.E. Pacific” has ...

About 470 kilometres off Vancouver Island, the Axial Seamount rises from the underwater mountain range known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The volcano is shaped like a warrior's shield, about 25 ...